Ward Manager

Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Band 7 Ward Manager in Maidstone. This leadership role focuses on delivering high-quality care for clients with complex health needs while fostering a supportive environment for staff development. Applicants must demonstrate strong leadership, trauma-informed care principles, and have a valid UK driving licence. Join a diverse team committed to exceptional healthcare service.

Benefits

Exceptional professional development opportunities

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex mental and physical health needs.
• Ability to provide professional leadership and support to junior staff.
• Competence in adverse and changing environments.

Responsibilities

• Oversee management of a defined caseload of clients.
• Ensure delivery of multidisciplinary assessments and care programmes.
• Maintain adherence to internal policies and audit requirements.

Skills

Strong leadership qualities

Clinical supervision

Trauma-informed care

Evidence-based practice

Education

Full, valid UK driving licence

Job description

We are looking for a Band 7 Ward Manager to join our busy team based in Maidstone. We require someone who demonstrates strong leadership qualities and embraces a trauma-informed approach to care. The successful candidate will play a key role in fostering a therapeutic environment, supporting staff development, and ensuring high-quality care for our service users.

• You will oversee the management of a defined caseload of clients with complex mental and physical health needs, using evidence based, person centred, recovery orientated principles and practice and trauma informed care.
• You will provide clinical and professional leadership for junior staff through supervision and training.
• You will support the strategic objectives of KMPT through maintaining the adherence of staff and self to all internal policies and external audit requirements.
• You will work on a supernumerary basis and as part of the overall team covering clinical input where required.
  
  

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

The Ward Manager is responsible for ensuring high standards of patient care. They are professionally responsible for ensuring the delivery of a range of multidisciplinary assessments of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

They must maintain a supportive leadership profile for the Deputy Ward Managers and for the full multidisciplinary team whilst working collaboratively with all other professionals to support the delivery of a therapeutic approach to patient care. The wellbeing of patients, staff and visitors is paramount to the ward ethos.

The Ward Manager must be able to work competently in a challenging environment and be able to react to changing care demands whilst demonstrating the highest levels of care and empathy towards patients. This is across all aspects of the role in a flexible manner, demonstrating the trust values.

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from underrepresented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day

We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future

To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Buba Cooper Job title: General Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07785242660